I think it's the modular design. The mods take up a third of the bot and establish weakpoints, and adding extra wheels is an attempt to look like Bronco, but it just makes it too sluggish. Go back to the compact design, and pick one weapon for your bot, or a dual weapon system. Those weakpoints really screwed it. The driver was a good sport at least though, with the 'what am I supposed to do' shrug.

I think one of the most interesting things to read up on are the Ming Treasure Voyages of the early 15th century.

To make it pretty sure, 80 ~ 100 years before Columbus reached America or da Gama returned from India, China launched several massive voyages across South East Asia, reaching as far as Africa. It's interesting to think about how different history would be if China maintained Naval superiority in the area, or potentially used these voyages as a method of conquest.

Hell, it may well have been possible for China to reach "The New World" well before the Europeans did. Imagine North and South America colonized by China.

How after after Alexander the great conquered Persian, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, the Persians got mad and surged back to power. This cut off an entire Greek empire in current day Afghanistan. They had contact with the Chinese. Some Afghanis and Pakistanis, especially the Pashtuns, have blue eyes, blonde hair/ light brown hair, even red hair, and claim they are desendents from this empire.

It seems there’s some contention over what to call the HUGE and DUCK fanbases. Comment on this comment with your name and the one with the most upvotes by the end of today is the one I’ll put on the list.

Great movie, great ending, it just makes you feel drained. There's no good guy, and everyone is the bad guy. You just feel like watching something completely out of touch afterward to have some sort of escape. It's just too real. Everyone just goes home feeling shitty.

The bit that got me is that every person in the Cube is there for a reason. The doctor to help them minimise dehydration, etc., the escape artist to help them initially avoid the traps, Kazan to figure out the large prime numbers etc.

The only person that doesn’t have a reason to be there is the police officer, unless he was put in their specifically to go nuts and kill some of the others.

I really like wacky nonsensical designs like BRWC. The good spinners are becoming clones of one another, and we need unique designs to try and dethrone them. Most unique designs will fail spectacularly, but every once in a while, something will be new and deadly. For this reason, I also applaud the Double Jeopardy guys. I think we need more unique weapons/combinations and styles.

An old man dropped dead of a heart attack. Everything seemed pretty normal, until they found that he had been using a fake name. They theorized that he was this Australian guy who butchered his family and disappeared, but it was proved the cases were unrelated. Does anyone remember this?